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Cole, Thomas,
Landscape -- Mountain
Landscape -- Phenomenon
Landscape -- Italy
Waterscape -- Bay
Figure male -- Full length
Occupation -- Religion
Painting
Mount Etna from Taormina, (painting).
Artist:
Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848, painter.
Title:
Mount Etna from Taormina, (painting).
Dates:
1843.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Oil on canvas.
Dimensions:
78 5/8 x 120 5/8 in. (199.7 x 306.4 cm).
Inscription:
(Lower left:) T. Cole signed
Description:
View looking down at ancient ruins on a hillside above the Bay of Naxos, the snow-covered Mt. Etna with smoke rising from the top in the background. In the foreground the a monk walks among the ruins.
Subject:
Landscape -- Mountain -- Mt. Etna
Landscape -- Phenomenon -- Volcano
Landscape -- Italy -- Sicily
Waterscape -- Bay -- Bay of Naxos
Figure male -- Full length
Occupation -- Religion -- Monk
Object Type:
Painting
Owner:
Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1844.6
Provenance:
Purchased by Smith, Alfred and Daniel Wadsworth, 1844.
References:
Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974.
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 243-246.
Truettner, William H., and Allan Wallach, eds., "Thomas Cole Landscape into History," New Haven: Yale University Press (National Museum of American Art), 1994, pg. 60.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, plate 38.
Truettner, William H., and Allan Wallach, eds., "Thomas Cole Landscape into History," New Haven: Yale University Press (National Museum of American Art), 1994, pg. 60.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAP 06910238
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